--- title: "16 Perennial-philosophy Quotes by 3 authors" description: "Browse 16 Perennial-philosophy quotes by 3 authors. Discover the best Perennial-philosophy sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39d/paul-brunton-7860_awakening_to-be-aware-of-the-miracle-entailed-in-e_1131635.jpg" --- > [“...to be aware of the miracle entailed in every moment of living...”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-brunton/to-be-aware-of-the-miracle-entailed-in-every-moment-of-living/) [Paul Brunton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-brunton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39d/paul-brunton-7860_awakening_to-be-aware-of-the-miracle-entailed-in-e_1131635.jpg) > [“The esoteric finds the Absolute within the traditions, as poets find poetry within the poems.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frithjof-schuon/the-esoteric-finds-the-absolute-within-the-traditions-as-poets-find/) [Frithjof Schuon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frithjof-schuon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/959/frithjof-schuon-23613_esoteric_the-esoteric-finds-the-absolute-within-t_711354.jpg) > [“The divinity is there, within you; have faith that it is so and entrust yourself to it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-brunton/the-divinity-is-there-within-you-have-faith-that-it-is-so-and-entrust/) [Paul Brunton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-brunton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4bb/paul-brunton-7860_awakening_the-divinity-is-there-within-you-have-fa_1803742.jpg) > [“How can he have fears for his future who knows that he is related to God, and that God is the same…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-brunton/how-can-he-have-fears-for-his-future-who-knows-that-he-is-related-to/) [Paul Brunton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-brunton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa9/paul-brunton-7860_faith_how-can-he-have-fears-for-his-future-who_928784.jpg) > [“Not by adding more information, or more learning, or more study, can we now enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but rather by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-brunton/not-by-adding-more-information-or-more-learning-or-more-study-can-we/) [Paul Brunton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-brunton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/278/paul-brunton-7860_contemplation_not-by-adding-more-information-or-more-l_2110559.jpg) > [“It is often advisable to be one's own guide, studying worthy books, using prayer and reflection, and following the intuitive guidance of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-brunton/it-is-often-advisable-to-be-one-s-own-guide-studying-worthy-books/) [Paul Brunton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-brunton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/525/paul-brunton-7860_awakening_it-is-often-advisable-to-be-one-s-own-gu_532064.jpg) > [“Trials there must be upon this earth. We are made of a stuff that easily corrupts when nothing calls to order, when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frithjof-schuon/trials-there-must-be-upon-this-earth-we-are-made-of-a-stuff-that/) [Frithjof Schuon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frithjof-schuon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/09d/frithjof-schuon-23613_adversity_trials-there-must-be-upon-this-earth-we_490180.jpg) > [“The deeper he penetrates into this inner being, the more will he feel inclined to keep the development quite secret. It is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-brunton/the-deeper-he-penetrates-into-this-inner-being-the-more-will-he-feel/) [Paul Brunton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-brunton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/310/paul-brunton-7860_contemplation_the-deeper-he-penetrates-into-this-inner_705007.jpg) > [“It is true that philosophy is quite aware of the Buddhistic picture of life, of the sorrows and sicknesses which drag him…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-brunton/it-is-true-that-philosophy-is-quite-aware-of-the-buddhistic-picture/) [Paul Brunton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-brunton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/83a/paul-brunton-7860_awakening_it-is-true-that-philosophy-is-quite-awar_1135616.jpg) > [“It would be wonderful if everyone, everywhere, could slip so easily into the kingdom of heaven, and just as easily stay there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-brunton/it-would-be-wonderful-if-everyone-everywhere-could-slip-so-easily/) [Paul Brunton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-brunton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8e9/paul-brunton-7860_awakening_it-would-be-wonderful-if-everyone-everyw_2189700.jpg) > [“It is while working with the Short Path that the man discovers he may apply its principles to his worldly existence, his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-brunton/it-is-while-working-with-the-short-path-that-the-man-discovers-he-may/) [Paul Brunton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-brunton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/357/paul-brunton-7860_divine-guidance_it-is-while-working-with-the-short-path_2685365.jpg) > [“The Sphinx, so old that it had watched the childhood of the world, plunged in unbroken contemplation, had seen civilizations rise to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-brunton/the-sphinx-so-old-that-it-had-watched-the-childhood-of-the-world/) [Paul Brunton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-brunton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/041/paul-brunton-7860_ancient-civilization_the-sphinx-so-old-that-it-had-watched-th_2197308.jpg) > [“One of the most valuable forms of yoga is the yoga of constant remembrance. Its subject may be a mystical experience, intuition,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-brunton/one-of-the-most-valuable-forms-of-yoga-is-the-yoga-of-constant/) [Paul Brunton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-brunton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/362/paul-brunton-7860_awakening_one-of-the-most-valuable-forms-of-yoga-i_1434755.jpg) > [“The man who wishes to know the "that" which is "thou" may set to work in any one of three ways. He…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aldous-huxley/the-man-who-wishes-to-know-the-that-which-is-thou-may-set-to-work-in/) [Aldous Huxley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aldous-huxley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fe2/aldous-huxley-97_eastern-philosophy_the-man-who-wishes-to-know-the-that-whic_816766.jpg) > [“The differences between religions are reflected very clearly in the different forms of sacred art: compared with Gothic art, above all in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frithjof-schuon/the-differences-between-religions-are-reflected-very-clearly-in-the/) [Frithjof Schuon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frithjof-schuon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/621/frithjof-schuon-23613_art_the-differences-between-religions-are-re_1360714.jpg) > [“The men who had inhabited prehistoric Egypt, who had carved the Sphinx and founded the world‘s oldest civilization, were men who had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-brunton/the-men-who-had-inhabited-prehistoric-egypt-who-had-carved-the-sphinx/) [Paul Brunton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-brunton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cef/paul-brunton-7860_ancient-civilization_the-men-who-had-inhabited-prehistoric-eg_2798365.jpg) ## Top authors on Perennial-philosophy - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-paul-brunton-73807.jpg) Paul Brunton 12 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/perennial-philosophy/paul-brunton/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/perennial-philosophy/#itemlist", "name": "Perennial-philosophy Quotes", "numberOfItems": 16, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“...to be aware of the miracle entailed in every moment of living...”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Paul Brunton" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-brunton/to-be-aware-of-the-miracle-entailed-in-every-moment-of-living/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39d/paul-brunton-7860_awakening_to-be-aware-of-the-miracle-entailed-in-e_1131635.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39d/paul-brunton-7860_awakening_to-be-aware-of-the-miracle-entailed-in-e_1131635.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39d/paul-brunton-7860_awakening_to-be-aware-of-the-miracle-entailed-in-e_1131635.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“...to be aware of the miracle entailed in every moment of living...” — Paul Brunton", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The esoteric finds the Absolute within the traditions, as poets find poetry within the poems.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Frithjof Schuon" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frithjof-schuon/the-esoteric-finds-the-absolute-within-the-traditions-as-poets-find/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/959/frithjof-schuon-23613_esoteric_the-esoteric-finds-the-absolute-within-t_711354.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/959/frithjof-schuon-23613_esoteric_the-esoteric-finds-the-absolute-within-t_711354.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/959/frithjof-schuon-23613_esoteric_the-esoteric-finds-the-absolute-within-t_711354.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The esoteric finds the Absolute within the traditions, as poets find poetry within the poems.” — Frithjof Schuon", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The divinity is there, within you; 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It is becoming too holy to be talked about […] There are some inner experiences which seem too holy to be talked about in public, too intimate even to be talked about with intimate friends, too mysterious to be mentioned to anyone else except a student or a teacher who has passed through similar experiences himself.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Paul Brunton" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-brunton/the-deeper-he-penetrates-into-this-inner-being-the-more-will-he-feel/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/310/paul-brunton-7860_contemplation_the-deeper-he-penetrates-into-this-inner_705007.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/310/paul-brunton-7860_contemplation_the-deeper-he-penetrates-into-this-inner_705007.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/310/paul-brunton-7860_contemplation_the-deeper-he-penetrates-into-this-inner_705007.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The deeper he penetrates into this inner being, the more will he feel inclined to keep the development quite…” — Paul Brunton", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 9, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“It is true that philosophy is quite aware of the Buddhistic picture of life, of the sorrows and sicknesses which drag him down at times. That is why it makes equanimity a leading item of the inner work upon himself, why it becomes so necessary. But it is also true that moments, moods, and glimpses are also possible when there is uplift, and he can confirm for himself that the human link with the higher power is a very real thing.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Paul Brunton" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-brunton/it-is-true-that-philosophy-is-quite-aware-of-the-buddhistic-picture/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/83a/paul-brunton-7860_awakening_it-is-true-that-philosophy-is-quite-awar_1135616.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/83a/paul-brunton-7860_awakening_it-is-true-that-philosophy-is-quite-awar_1135616.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/83a/paul-brunton-7860_awakening_it-is-true-that-philosophy-is-quite-awar_1135616.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It is true that philosophy is quite aware of the Buddhistic picture of life, of the sorrows and sicknesses…” — Paul Brunton", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“It would be wonderful if everyone, everywhere, could slip so easily into the kingdom of heaven, and just as easily stay there forever. But alas! the facts of human nature forbid it. People require teaching, training, purifying, disciplining, and preparing, before they can do so […] Purification of the heart and calming of the mind are necessary prerequisites for penetrating into the Overself […] The attempt to ignore order of development in the Quest, to leap from the lowest to the highest stages, to miss all the intervening ones, is an attempt to get something for nothing. It cannot succeed. For the influx of Spirit needs a chalice clean enough to be fit for it, large enough to hold it. What would happen if the influx were poured into a dirty, cracked, tiny, and weak vessel? 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He learns that the ultimate source of his physical welfare is not the ego but the Overself. If he looks only to the little ego for his supply, he must accept all its narrow limitations, its dependence on personal effort alone. But if he looks farther and recognizes his true source of welfare is with the Overself, with its miracle-working Grace, he knows that all things are possible to it. Hope, optimism, and high expectation make his life richer, more abundant.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Paul Brunton" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-brunton/it-is-while-working-with-the-short-path-that-the-man-discovers-he-may/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/357/paul-brunton-7860_divine-guidance_it-is-while-working-with-the-short-path_2685365.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/357/paul-brunton-7860_divine-guidance_it-is-while-working-with-the-short-path_2685365.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/357/paul-brunton-7860_divine-guidance_it-is-while-working-with-the-short-path_2685365.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It is while working with the Short Path that the man discovers he may apply its principles to his worldly…” — Paul Brunton", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 12, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The Sphinx, so old that it had watched the childhood of the world, plunged in unbroken contemplation, had seen civilizations rise to glory and then slowly droop like withered flowers, had watched shouting invaders pass and repass, come and depart, come and stay. And yet it stood its ground, so utterly calm, so utterly removed from all human emotions. Something of that stony indifference to the mutations of fate seemed to have crept under my skin during the night‘s darkness. The Sphinx relieves one of all worry about the future, all burdens of the heart; and it turns the past into a cinema film, which one may watch in detachment, impersonally. (p. 34)”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Paul Brunton" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-brunton/the-sphinx-so-old-that-it-had-watched-the-childhood-of-the-world/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/041/paul-brunton-7860_ancient-civilization_the-sphinx-so-old-that-it-had-watched-th_2197308.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/041/paul-brunton-7860_ancient-civilization_the-sphinx-so-old-that-it-had-watched-th_2197308.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/041/paul-brunton-7860_ancient-civilization_the-sphinx-so-old-that-it-had-watched-th_2197308.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The Sphinx, so old that it had watched the childhood of the world, plunged in unbroken contemplation, had…” — Paul Brunton", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 13, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“One of the most valuable forms of yoga is the yoga of constant remembrance. Its subject may be a mystical experience, intuition, or idea. In essence it is really an endeavour to insert the transcendental atmosphere into the mundane life. The method of this exercise is to maintain uninterruptedly and unbrokenly the remembrance of the soul's nearness, the soul's reality, the soul's transcendence. The goal of this exercise is to become wholly possessed by the soul itself. This constant remembrance of the higher self becomes in time like a kind of holy communion […] \"Be with IT\" is the best advice for those who can understand it.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Paul Brunton" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-brunton/one-of-the-most-valuable-forms-of-yoga-is-the-yoga-of-constant/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/362/paul-brunton-7860_awakening_one-of-the-most-valuable-forms-of-yoga-i_1434755.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/362/paul-brunton-7860_awakening_one-of-the-most-valuable-forms-of-yoga-i_1434755.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/362/paul-brunton-7860_awakening_one-of-the-most-valuable-forms-of-yoga-i_1434755.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“One of the most valuable forms of yoga is the yoga of constant remembrance. Its subject may be a mystical…” — Paul Brunton", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 14, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The man who wishes to know the \"that\" which is \"thou\" may set to work in any one of three ways. He may begin by looking inwards into his own particular thou and, by a process of \"dying to self\" --- self in reasoning, self in willing, self in feeling --- come at last to knowledge of the self, the kingdom of the self, the kingdom of God that is within. Or else he may begin with the thous existing outside himself, and may try to realize their essential unity with God and, through God, with one another and with his own being. Or, finally (and this is doubtless the best way), he may seek to approach the ultimate That both from within and from without, so that he comes to realize God experimentally as at once the principle of his own thou and of all other thous, animate and inanimate.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Aldous Huxley" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aldous-huxley/the-man-who-wishes-to-know-the-that-which-is-thou-may-set-to-work-in/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fe2/aldous-huxley-97_eastern-philosophy_the-man-who-wishes-to-know-the-that-whic_816766.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fe2/aldous-huxley-97_eastern-philosophy_the-man-who-wishes-to-know-the-that-whic_816766.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fe2/aldous-huxley-97_eastern-philosophy_the-man-who-wishes-to-know-the-that-whic_816766.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The man who wishes to know the \"that\" which is \"thou\" may set to work in any one of three ways. He may begin…” — Aldous Huxley", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 15, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The differences between religions are reflected very clearly in the different forms of sacred art: compared with Gothic art, above all in its “flamboyant” style, Islamic art is contemplative rather than volitive: it is “intellectual” and not “dramatic”, and it opposes the cold beauty of geometrical design to the mystical heroism of cathedrals. Islam is the perspective of “omnipresence” (“God is everywhere”), which coincides with that of “simultaneity” (“Truth has always been”); it aims at avoiding any “particularization” or “condensation”, any “unique fact” in time and space, although as a religion it necessarily includes an aspect of “unique fact”, without which it would be ineffective or even absurd. In other words Islam aims at what is “everywhere center”, and this is why, symbolically speaking, it replaces the cross with the cube or the woven fabric: it “decentralizes” and “universalizes” to the greatest possible extent, in the realm of art as in that of doctrine; it is opposed to any individualist mode and hence to any “personalist” mysticism. To express ourselves in geometrical terms, we could say that a point which seeks to be unique, and which thus becomes an absolute center, appears to Islam—in art as in theology—as a usurpation of the divine absoluteness and therefore as an “association” (shirk); there is only one single center, God, whence the prohibition against “centralizing” images, especially statues; even the Prophet, the human center of the tradition, has no right to a “Christic uniqueness” and is “decentralized” by the series of other Prophets; the same is true of Islam—or the Koran—which is similarly integrated in a universal “fabric” and a cosmic “rhythm”, having been preceded by other religions—or other “Books”—which it merely restores. The Kaaba, center of the Muslim world, becomes space as soon as one is inside the building: the ritual direction of prayer is then projected toward the four cardinal points. If Christianity is like a central fire, Islam on the contrary resembles a blanket of snow, at once unifying and leveling and having its center everywhere.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Frithjof Schuon" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frithjof-schuon/the-differences-between-religions-are-reflected-very-clearly-in-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/621/frithjof-schuon-23613_art_the-differences-between-religions-are-re_1360714.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/621/frithjof-schuon-23613_art_the-differences-between-religions-are-re_1360714.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/621/frithjof-schuon-23613_art_the-differences-between-religions-are-re_1360714.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The differences between religions are reflected very clearly in the different forms of sacred art: compared…” — Frithjof Schuon", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 16, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The men who had inhabited prehistoric Egypt, who had carved the Sphinx and founded the world‘s oldest civilization, were men who had made their exodus from Atlantis to settle on this strip of land that bordered the Nile. And they had left before their ill-fated continent sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, a catastrophe which had drained the Sahara and turned it into a desert. The shells which to-day litter the surface of the Sahara in places, as well as the fossil fish which are found among its sands, prove that it was once covered by the waters of a vast ocean. It was a tremendous and astonishing thought that the Sphinx provided a solid, visible and enduring link between the people of to-day and the people of a lost world, the unknown Atlanteans. This great symbol has lost its meaning for the modern world, for whom it is now but an object of local curiosity. What did it mean to the Atlanteans? We must look for some hint of an answer in the few remnants of culture still surviving from peoples whose own histories claimed Atlantean origin. We must probe behind the degenerate rituals of races like the Incas and the Mayas, mounting to the purer worship of their distant ancestors, and we shall find that the loftiest object of their worship was Light, represented by the Sun. Hence they build pyramidal Temples of the Sun throughout ancient America. Such temples were either variants or slightly distorted copies of similar temples which had existed in Atlantis. After Plato went to Egypt and settled for a while in the ancient School of Heliopolis, where he lived and studied during thirteen years, the priest-teachers, usually very guarded with foreigners, favoured the earnest young Greek enquirer with information drawn from their well-preserved secret records. Among other things they told him that a great flat-topped pyramid had stood in the centre of the island of Atlantis, and that on this top there had been build the chief temple of the continent – a sun temple. […] The Sphinx was the revered emblem in stone of a race which looked upon Light as the nearest thing to God in this dense material world. Light is the subtlest, most intangible of things which man can register by means of one of his five senses. It is the most ethereal kind of matter which he knows. It is the most ethereal element science can handle, and even the various kind of invisible rays are but variants of light which vibrate beyond the power of our retinas to grasp. So in the Book of Genesis the first created element was Light, without which nothing else could be created. „The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the Deep,“ wrote Egyptian-trained Moses. „And God said, Let there be Light: and there was Light.“ Not only that, it is also a perfect symbol of that heavenly Light which dawns within the deep places of man‘s soul when he yields heart and mind to God; it is a magnificent memorial to that divine illumination which awaits him secretly even amid the blackest despairs. Man, in turning instinctively to the face and presence of the Sun, turns to the body of his Creator. And from the sun, light is born: from the sun it comes streaming into our world. Without the sun we should remain perpetually in horrible darkness; crops would not grow: mankind would starve, die, and disappear from the face of this planet. If this reverence for Light and for its agent, the sun, was the central tenet of Atlantean religion, so also was it the central tenet of early Egyptian religion. Ra, the sun-god, was first, the father and creator of all the other gods, the Maker of all things, the One, the self-born [...] If the Sphinx were connected with this religion of Light, it would surely have some relationship with the sun.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Paul Brunton" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-brunton/the-men-who-had-inhabited-prehistoric-egypt-who-had-carved-the-sphinx/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cef/paul-brunton-7860_ancient-civilization_the-men-who-had-inhabited-prehistoric-eg_2798365.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cef/paul-brunton-7860_ancient-civilization_the-men-who-had-inhabited-prehistoric-eg_2798365.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cef/paul-brunton-7860_ancient-civilization_the-men-who-had-inhabited-prehistoric-eg_2798365.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The men who had inhabited prehistoric Egypt, who had carved the Sphinx and founded the world‘s oldest…” — Paul Brunton", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/perennial-philosophy/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/perennial-philosophy/", "name": "Perennial-philosophy Quotes", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/perennial-philosophy/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39d/paul-brunton-7860_awakening_to-be-aware-of-the-miracle-entailed-in-e_1131635.jpg" }, "description": "Browse 16 Perennial-philosophy quotes by 3 authors. 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